Gadgets

I don’t need to know what happened to your phone. All I know is that you went into the bathroom with it and now it’s all wet. And you’re crying. Maybe it’s the thought of having to shell out hundreds of dollars to replace that off-contract BlackBerry. Maybe it’s knowing you just stuck your hand in the toilet.

Microsoft officially unveiled its initial lineup of Windows Phone 7 devices today, with the Samsung Focus looking to be the first US handset available—it’ll start selling on November 8th for $200 with a two-year AT&T contract.

While the first crop of handsets and the shiny, new operating system running atop them certainly look …

The newly-announced Pogoplug Pro is a $99 hardware device that’s capable of turning an external hard drive into an internet-connected drive. It features four USB ports for hooking up hard drives, thumb drives, and even printers. Once connected to your home network, files can be accessed and shared over the internet through just about any

This package sells for around $200 just about everywhere else. Amazon is selling it for $175. Thanks to the magic of mathematics, we can deduce that to be roughly $25 in savings. It’s available in white or black to match your …

Electronic Arts will make Windows Phone 7 games after all. Microsoft’s recent press release indicates that these four titles will be available this fall: Need for Speed: Undercover, Tetris, The Sims 3, and Monopoly.

The games support Windows Phone 7’s Xbox Live integration, "featuring the unique ability to track and share scores with

Apps have been trickling into the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace over the last few weeks but I just noticed a handful of notable apps that were demoed in the weeks leading up to today’s announcement made available in the last 24 hours.

As of 1:54AM ET, eBay (Free), Flixster (Free) and a handful of games are available in the …

The Ford Motor Company may be a hundred and seven years old, but when it comes to cool gadgetry, it’s impressively spry for a company of its age. For several years, it’s poured effort into its Sync and MyFord Touch ecosystem, which puts a ton of entertainment- and information-related features into the dashboards of Fords and Lincolns, …

The New York Post reports that Apple may be trying to hammer out a deal with the major music labels to provide iTunes customers with unlimited access to tracks for a set monthly fee. This information comes from unnamed sources, which seem to be all over the place regarding Apple news lately. I’m considering a macro that’ll type “take …

It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.